“But my sadness is comforting
Because it’s right and natural
And because it’s what the soul should feel
When it already thinks it exists
And the hand pick flowers
And the soul takes no notice.”

—  Fernando Pessoa

Last update Sept. 29, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already …" by Fernando Pessoa?
Fernando Pessoa photo
Fernando Pessoa288
Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935

Related quotes

“Sometimes when I think about life I feel sad for the poor souls focused on the grosser nature of life. Life is truly sad to them, it definitely should be when disconnected to your higher self: you can never experience real peace till you understand your three nature of existence and find a way to connect all three in your interactions with the environment.
It's all within and not without.”

N3du

Gérard de Nerval photo

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”

Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855) French Romantic poet

Jimmy Carter photo

“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Remarks at a White House meeting commemorating the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (6 December 1978), Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978 Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978, p. 2164
Presidency (1977–1981)

Jimmy Carter photo

“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Remarks at a White House meeting commemorating the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (6 December 1978), Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978 Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978, p. 2164
Presidency (1977–1981), 1978

Christopher Titus photo

“I lost 28 pounds in my divorce…because that's what a soul weighs.”

Christopher Titus (1964) actor, writer, podcaster

Love is Evol (2009)

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo

“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye! and what then?”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

"Anima Poetæ : From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" (1895) edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge, p. 238

“Right from when I was an amateur, I loved kickboxing. I used to feel sad because the game had no sponsors.”

Moses Golola (1980) Kick Boxer, Eating Champion

Daily Monitor http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/How-Golola-moses-made-kickboxing-famous/-/691232/1745654/-/uu6p2e/-/index.html

Neale Donald Walsch photo

“Think this: My Soul knows exactly what it is doing.
Also, think this: My Soul already knows what really matters.
So it is not a question of “finding” that answer, it is a question of remembering. It is not a process of discovery, it is a process of recovery. This data does not have to be researched, it merely has to be retrieved.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

“But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Related topics